Giving Your Way

Welcome to Akron Community Foundation! We’re here to help you give efficiently, effectively and meaningfully to your favorite causes and charities.

We think you’ll find us unlike any other nonprofit you’ve ever met. Why? Because our business is helping you give. You choose the cause or the nonprofit. We make sure your charitable gifts reach your targets, whatever they are. Need some creativity, advice and inspiration? We can provide that, too.

Philanthropy for the Business Savvy

We offer a smart way to give for people and companies who are serious about their charitable giving.

Like the more than 1,200 other community foundations in the nation, Akron Community Foundation offers six charitable fund options for organizations, families and individuals to use during and after their lifetime.

Since 1955, residents and organizations of Greater Akron have established more than 630 charitable funds at the community foundation, including a record-breaking $12 million agency endowment fund established by IBH Foundation and a $5 million corporate-advised fund established by Medical Mutual of Ohio.

But most of the charitable funds were established by devoted community members like Rennick and Dee Andreoli, whose love of children and our natural surroundings has compelled them to help campers with special needs.

Services you can expect

With your fund, you can support activities here in Greater Akron, or any approved nonprofit in the nation. You can be charitable during your lifetime, or you can continue your charitable legacy forever through an endowment fund, from which even your great-great grandchildren can make grants. It truly is giving your way.

Akron Community Foundation makes your charitable giving more straightforward, but also more inspiring for you. Our services include:

Six types of charitable funds, from donor-advised funds to scholarship funds, all of which are tax smart and tailored to meet your needs.